D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.